DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Elastic

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2010

2018

2014

2009

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.6, January 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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